Parenting Great Kids With Dr. Meg Meeker

Joining us today is Alli Worthington, an author with an impressive grasp on a familiar topic close to many hearts - mom guilt. Navigating her successful career while parenting her five boys, Alli has experienced firsthand the societal pressures all mothers face. Alli's groundbreaking national survey investigating the pains of motherhood led to her latest thought-provoking book, 'Remaining You While Raising Them'.  In this episode, you’ll learn how to: Navigate the societal pressures amplifying mom guilt. Unmask the hidden ways social media fuels mom guilt. Shine a light on the importance of self-care and setting defined boundaries. Explore the strategies to promote resilience and independence in children. Appreciate the inherent value in friendships and support systems for mothers. The key moments in this episode are: 00:00:00 - The Overwhelming Burden of Mom Guilt 00:02:38 - The Brokenness of Modern Motherhood 00:05:19 - The Impact of Social Media on Mom Guilt 00:07:30 - Trusting Yourself as a Mom 00

Are you longing for a stronger connection with your almost grown kids, but finding it challenging because it feels like you're speaking different languages? Many parents face this dilemma. You may have resorted to nagging and lecturing your kids thinking it will make them listen and understand, but let's be honest, that approach doesn't work. Fortunately, there's a better way. Join renowned experts, Dr. Meg Meeker and Dr. Emily Kline, as they engage in an enlightening discussion on effective strategies to bridge the communication gap with your almost grown kids. Their conversation focuses on: The art of effective communication to build stronger relationships with your almost grown kids. Practical tips on setting healthy cell phone use boundaries for teens. The importance of showing genuine interest in your teenager's life and how active listening can make a huge difference.   The key moments in this episode are: 00:00:00 The Challenges of Communicating with Older Kids 00:03:48 Giving Kids Control and the

In this thought-provoking episode, Dr. Meeker, joins forces with Dr. Jill Simons Throughout the episode, Dr. Meeker and Dr. Simons encourage listeners to ask themselves some tough questions, challenging popular narratives and encouraging informed decision-making. They emphasize the importance of providing unwavering support and love to children experiencing gender dysphoria while advocating for cautious approaches when addressing their unique needs.   The key moments in this episode are: 00:00:00 - Stereotypes and Personality, 00:03:12 - The Rise of Transgender Issues 00:08:26 - Speaking Up for Kids 00:09:40 - Biological Sex and Stereotypes 00:11:54 - Puberty and Acceptance 00:17:37 - The Financial Incentive of Transgender Treatments 00:18:02 - Lack of Testing and Certainty in Transgender Treatments 00:20:36 - Limitations and Impacts of Transitioning 00:22:00 - Sterility and Sexual Function in Transgender Children 00:25:10 - Supporting Parents and Providing Resources   Other recommended episodes: "Kids and T

If you're feeling overwhelmed and exhausted from juggling countless responsibilities and tasks, only to find that you still don't have enough time for what matters most to you, then you are not alone! Many parents are caught in a cycle of busyness that only leads to stress and burnout, despite their best efforts. Our guest, Crystal Paine, who is a mom of six, bestselling author, and entrepreneur, shares with Dr. Meeker tips from her new book, The Time-Saving Mom: How to Juggle a Lot, Enjoy Your Life, and Accomplish What Matters Most.   Topics covered: Think long term. Ask yourself what will matter at the end of your life and what will matter 25 years from now. Find ways to make that little pocket of time that you already have to do something with it that is intentional. Explore how decluttering can decrease stress levels and make you feel more in control of your environment. Uncover the power of delegation and task prioritization to achieve a sense of equilibrium in your daily life. Learn how to own your

On this special Father's Day episode, Dr. Meeker and her special guests explore the worries, joys, and unwavering love that fathers experience in their parenting journey. Joining the roundtable is Andy Doole, a devoted father, author, influencer, and Seattle Seahawks in-game host. Benjamin Watson, a father of seven and Super Bowl Champion, also lends his insights, and completing the panel is Michael Dickson, a successful businessman and devoted father of three. Topics covered: Create a safe and understanding atmosphere at home by mastering empathy and open expression of emotions. Promote healthy relationships with your children by intentionally focusing on their needs and proximity. Cultivate a harmonious family dynamic by teaming up with your spouse. Transfer your workplace discipline skills to your parenting toolbox for a more holistic approach to raising your kids. Sign up for a free live coaching call with Dr. Meeker! Thursday, June 22, 2023, at 1:00 pm eastern Register here Follow us on Facebook  a

In this episode, Dr. Meeker and Nate Randle, the CEO of GABB discuss kids and social media. Parents today want to stay connected with their child by taking advantage of the latest in technology. However, the same tools that allow this to happen are also not made with a child in mind. Gabb strives to tailor innovative cellular technology exclusively for kids and their parents—keeping them connected and protected. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GabbWireless Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gabbwireless/ Twitter:@GabbWireless Website: https://www.gabb.com FROM THE PRODUCER Thanks for listening to Episode #201 Impossible To Keep Your Kids Off Social Media? Think Again. and for helping Dr. Meg’s parenting revolution reach more than 5.5 MILLION downloads! Please subscribe, rate and leave a review for us on iTunes! Get Social with Dr. Meg on Facebook & Instagram @MegMeekerMD Check out Dr. Meg’s parenting resources and tools! www.meekerparenting.com   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho

In this episode, Dr. Meeker along with her podcast producer’s, Mike Segovia and Jessica Daley, will take you down memory lane in celebration of Episode #200 of Parenting Great Kids podcast.  Episode #165 “Toxic Screen Time” with guest, Melanie Hempie.  She has answers and solutions for parents when it comes to social media and your children.  “Kids who are not burdened with smart phones and social media score higher in every single area. From academics, family attachment, interests and hobbies, their exercise and eating habits and sleeping habits. Everything that you can possibly measure, they do better.”  - Melanie Hempie Episode #41 “The Hope of Adoption” with guests, Steven Curtis, Mary Beth and Emily Chapman.  Emily was heavily involved in creating and nurturing this desire in her parent’s to want to adopt a child.  “I realize more as I look at the work of Show Hope and our own story of adoption and all the ways that Gods hands have been on and working through Emily’s life and our family in a profound way

In this episode Dr. Meeker and guest Sarah Moore have an intriguing conversation about her new book, Peaceful Discipline: Story Teaching, Brain Science, & Better Behavior. At the end of the day every parent wants to feel good about their parenting and good about the relationship they have with their child/children. Topics covered: The body-brain connection to behavior, why most "consequences" don't work, and what to do instead. How parents and children can regulate their nervous systems to foster greater connection, even in the thick of adversity. The power of connection over punishment. Your relationship with your child/children is a long-term relationship. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DandelionSeedsPositiveParenting/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dandelionseedspositiveliving/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dandelionseeds5 Website:  https://dandelion-seeds.com/about-us/ FROM THE PRODUCER Thanks for listening to Episode #199 Peaceful Parenting and for helping Dr. Meg’s parenting revolution rea

Join Dr. Meeker and Dr. Cloud as they discuss his new book, Trust. Rich with wisdom drawn from decades of experience in clinical practice, business consulting and research, Trust is the ultimate resource for managing this most complex and fundamental of human bonds. Topics covered: Trust is the fuel for all of life. We are wired biologically, neurologically, emotionally, spiritually, and psychologically to trust. Trust is the currency that drives every relationship, beginning with the foundational bond between infants and their mothers, extending to the trust networks that undergird every human endeavor–art, science, commerce–and binding together every relationship we have ever had or ever will have Trust: Knowing When to Give It, When to Withhold It, How to Earn It, and How to Fix It When It Gets Broken. Understand how to implement them: understanding, motive, capability, character, and track record.  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrHenryCloud/ Instagram:@drhenrycloudofficial  Twitter:@drhenrycloud

Katie shares her incredible testimony of how God has used her to make a difference as a young adult in Uganda. It’s a story of the grace and peace of God. After working in the orphanages in Uganda, it became important to not just have the children go through school or have meals provided but to also learn about the truth of their Savior, Jesus.  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KatieinUganda Instagram: @katieinuganda_ Website: https://katiedavismajors.com/ FROM THE PRODUCER Thanks for listening to Episode #197 Trading Our Fears for God’s Unshakeable Peace and for helping Dr. Meg’s parenting revolution reach more than SEVEN MILLION downloads! Please subscribe, rate and leave a review for us on iTunes! Get Social with Dr. Meg on Facebook & Instagram @MegMeekerMD Check out Dr. Meg’s parenting resources and tools! www.meekerparenting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Dr. Meeker and Bruce Sheridan as they talk about his life and new book, “A Well-Launched Life:  How Young People Can Live an Intentional, Fulfilling Life.”   There are four steps to the process in helping young adults find their purpose. 1. Think about what you want to do with your life. 2. Write it down. 3. Measure your progress every day. 4. Review it every 90 days.  He also shares about his abusive upbringing and has a message for fathers at the end of this podcast.   Facebook: Life Compass, Inc. Instagram: awelllaunchedlife Twitter:@lifecompus Website: lifecomp.org FROM THE PRODUCER Thanks for listening to Episode #196 Helping Young Adults Launch and for helping Dr. Meg’s parenting revolution reach more than SEVEN MILLION downloads! Please subscribe, rate and leave a review for us on iTunes! Get Social with Dr. Meg on Facebook & Instagram @MegMeekerMD Check out Dr. Meg’s parenting resources and tools! www.meekerparenting.com   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Amy W Daughters shares with Dr. Meeker about doing something unexpected and outrageous.  She shares the process of how her book, Dear Dana - That Time I Went Crazy and Wrote All 580 of My Facebook Friends a Handwritten Letter, came about. Sometimes stepping out and doing things that God calls us to do isn’t glamorous, sometimes its when we least expect it while sitting in yoga pants and eating ramen noodles.    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amydaughtersauthor/ Instagram: @smokinhotamys Twitter: https://twitter.com/DaughtersAmy Website: https://www.amydaughters.com FROM THE PRODUCER Thanks for listening to Episode #195, Hidden Joys From Doing Something Outrageous and for helping Dr. Meg’s parenting revolution reach more than SEVEN MILLION downloads! Please subscribe, rate and leave a review for us on iTunes! Get Social with Dr. Meg on Facebook & Instagram @MegMeekerMD Check out Dr. Meg’s parenting resources and tools! www.meekerparenting.com   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega

In this podcast, Dr. Meeker hears Nate and Anna tell of the miracles they saw God perform, obstacles that God overcame, and a community that came together in such a tangible way the couple can’t help but go away praising God for all they saw and heard. In their book 18 Days of Grace, follow Nate and Anna’s journey that includes the actual Facebook posts Nate posted at the time of the aneurysm to the thousands of prayer warriors who were following their story. Website: 18daysofgrace.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/18daysofgrace FROM THE PRODUCER Thanks for listening to Episode #194, 18 Days of Grace: The Nate and Anna Weeber Story and for helping Dr. Meg’s parenting revolution reach more than SEVEN MILLION downloads! Please subscribe, rate and leave a review for us on iTunes! Get Social with Dr. Meg on Facebook & Instagram @MegMeekerMD Check out Dr. Meg’s parenting resources and tools! www.meekerparenting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Temple Grandin joins Dr. Meg Meeker in speaking about the different forms of thinking and functioning as an adult with autism.  She is a primarily visual thinker who considers verbal communication to be a secondary skill. Grandin has taken strong positions on autism and the education of autistic children. She advocates early intervention, including the training of teachers to direct each child’s specific fixations, which they discuss in this podcast.   Website: https://www.templegrandin.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drtemplegrandin FROM THE PRODUCER Thanks for listening to Episode #193, Visual Thinking: Why Some Kids Learn Differently and for helping Dr. Meg’s parenting revolution reach more than SEVEN MILLION downloads! Please subscribe, rate and leave a review for us on iTunes! Get Social with Dr. Meg on Facebook & Instagram @MegMeekerMD Check out Dr. Meg’s parenting resources and tools! www.meekerparenting.com   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Dr. Meeker continues her discussion about transgender and kids with Irene Ericksen and Mary Anne Mosack. Some Topics Covered: Kids who deal with gender confusion also are dealing with other issues, such as, autism, OCD, anxiety and depression. Most start the transgender process without treating the actual cause of why these kids are feeling this way. We need to treat the whole person and not just the problems. Biology plays a factor in procreation because we need both males and females to do so. Kids are being influenced in school and on the internet that they can be any gender orientation that they want to be in order to fit into today’s culture. Parent’s can stand up and fight this based on the information that is not backed up by facts. The curriculum schools use is not sanctioned by the government. Having respect for your child’s feelings and emotions can build the trust between you in order to address these hard topics. Praise your child/children for coming to you with any of th

You won’t want to miss this episode! Dr. Meeker brings in some experts to talk about kids and transgender issues. They discuss what the medical data shows not just nationally, but worldwide. Irene Ericksen is a Senior Research Associate at The Institute for Research & Evaluation, an agency known for its work evaluating school-based sex education for over 25 years. She has recently completed a review of the research on key questions about gender identity confusion in adolescents. Mary Anne Mosack is the President/CEO of Ascend, a national organization empowering youth to make healthy choices about sex, relationships, and marriage through Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) education. She is a developer of Ascend’s nationally recognized Sexual Risk Avoidance Certification Course credentialing over 3,000 SRA educators across America. Both ladies bring a plethora of information regarding this topic.   Mary Anne Mosack: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AscendSRA Website: https://weascend.org/ www.institute-research.com

In this episode, Dr. Meeker and Emma Benoit discuss the hard topic of suicide in teens and what every parent should know. At the age of 16, Emma attempted suicide. Paralyzed, but propelled her on a mission to use her painful experience to help others find hope, and shine more light on the fact that 20 young people die every day by suicide in the United States. My Ascension is a feature length documentary that chronicles Emma's inspiring journey and quest to walk again, as she works to bring Hope Squad, a school-based suicide prevention program, to Louisiana. The film also highlights the stories of two remarkable young people who tragically did not survive their attempts, and we learn first-hand from their families, friends, school officials and suicide prevention experts about the devastating effects of suicide and what can be done to prevent it.   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/myascension Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benoitemma Twitter: https://twitter.com/myascensionfilm Website: https://www.my

Being in foster system changed Tori’s life completely.  There were trauma’s and bad experiences but out of all of this, she became strong in Christ through the love of a few important people in her life like her track coach, her youth leader and her church community. Some topics covered: Foster care system reform: Recognizing the impossibly overwhelming caseloads carried by many social workers, addressing issues that often arise in institutionalized group homes, and more. Embracing God the Father even though she had been wounded by so many. Seeing how love can change people’s lives and give them hope. What it means to be radically hospitable and why the Church should embrace it. Struggling with labels and identity as a biracial woman. Guest Info: www.torihopepetersen.com www.instagram.com/torihopepetersen FROM THE PRODUCER Thanks for listening to Episode #189, Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family Through Foster Care and for helping Dr. Meg’s parenting revolution reach more th

Starting first with her own relationship with food, Autumn decided to try a “whole food” diet which included dairy free and gluten free foods.  Her husband joined her in this journey and her 5 boys shortly thereafter.  In this episode Autumn shares how food helped her and her family feel better, get better sleep, help heal acne and behavioral issues associated with foods.  Some topics covered:  • How whole foods can change the way you sleep and help overall function in your body.  • Her cookbook has many quick and healthy options to choose from that are kid approved.  • Looking at ingredient labels is important in navigating a whole food diet.  • You can find simple, budget friendly meals in her cookbook Autumn's Social Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wholefoodfor7/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholefoodfor7/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/ADVMichaelis Website: https://wholefoodfor7.com/   FROM THE PRODUCER Thanks for listening to Episode #188, Whole Foods for Your Family, and for helpin

Have you ever felt out of control as a parent? It’s not a comfortable thing to feel out of control but we all will feel it at one point or another.  In this episode, Dr. Meeker shares from her heart about how Mary must have felt being the mother of Jesus, the Savior of the World, the one who gave His life on the cross for our sins.  Mary must have felt like it all was out of her control but she trusted God through it. FROM THE PRODUCER Thanks for listening to Episode #187, Living Emmanuel, and for helping Dr. Meg’s parenting revolution reach more than SEVEN MILLION downloads! Please subscribe, rate and leave a review for us on iTunes! Get Social with Dr. Meg on Facebook & Instagram @MegMeekerMD Check out Dr. Meg’s parenting resources and tools! www.meekerparenting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices